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Feb 15, 2021
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If you can taste food you can taste wine.

So here you are, a trillion or so smells in hand, now what are you going to do with them? How do we narrow that down into something we can make wine with? 

There are five elements to tasting wine, one for each of your five senses:

  • smell (olfactory)

  • taste (gustatory)

  • touch (kinesthetic)

  • sight (visual)

  • sound (auditory)

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